Re: Retrofitting XP on Dell
- From: mike <spamme9@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:10:25 GMT
Turps wrote:
My son has a Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop which was supplied with Windows Vista Home Premium.Depending on your definition of cheap...no.
He hates Vista. He would like to have Windows XP Pro or Home (which were not available at the time of purchase).
http://www.gennersales.co.uk/ sell Windows XP CDs and driver CDs for specific laptops, including his. They emphasize that one is required to have the Windows Product Key to be able to use their CDs. However he only has the Vista product key on the label on his laptop. Would that work for one of these XP CDs? I suspect it will not. Gennersales have not replied to our query about this.
I see Dell in the US (we are in the UK) have resumed selling some laptops with choice of Windows XP/Vista. I can find no reference to retrofitting XP. However Dell have many XP driver downloads for his laptop, so the driver part of the problem is probably OK.
Please can anyone suggest how to get XP legally and cheaply onto his laptop.
Turps
I bought extra copies of XP last year when the price bottomed out
at $10 after rebate...but that ship has sailed.
You're not the only one with the problem, so it's a seller's market.
You'll find lots of xp on ebay and craigslist. Much of it is bootleg.
Surely, a lot of it is legitimate, but there seems to be no way to tell
without installing and trying to activate. And that still doesn't prevent
problems in the future when your key shows up on someone else's system.
It's a nightmare. There are issues with OEM vs Retail versions.
A quick scan of ebay shows xp selling for $100 and up...while other
identical-looking xp gets no bids at $60. Somebody knows something
that I/we don't.
M$ wants the revenue from Vista. You can be sure they will apply
all possible pressure to FORCE people to upgrade in order to use new
hardware/software as it comes available.
Fortunately, you have a laptop and don't have to worry about internal
hardware. It's fixed. Suggest you double-check that driver list to
make sure that EVERY hardware driver you need is avaialble for xp.
My advice: "suck it up" and learn to love Vista...warts and all.
Issues will get resolved by third parties eventually...at additional
cost to you...sigh...
Are we having fun yet?
--
Return address is VALID!
Bunch-O-Stuff Forsale Here:
http://mike.liveline.de/sale.html
.
- References:
- Retrofitting XP on Dell
- From: Turps
- Retrofitting XP on Dell
- Prev by Date: Re: print screen function on Toshiba
- Next by Date: Re: CAN I PUT A BRIGHTEER SCREEN INTO IBM X31
- Previous by thread: Retrofitting XP on Dell
- Next by thread: Re: Retrofitting XP on Dell
- Index(es):
Relevant Pages
|
